At 3 a.m., the news is playing a biting incident that happened at a local hospital.

The zombies are coming.

It was the same in the previous life, a social event that suddenly turned into a disaster threatening all of humanity.

In just one hour, the hospital will be overrun.

At the same time, schools and shopping malls will have outbreaks of violent incidents.

In half a day, the entire city will face paralysis.

It's so fast that people have no time to react.

Thinking back to how I felt when bitten in the previous life, the intense pain when the virus invaded my body, I couldn't help but tremble.

I'm just an ordinary person, I don't have the superpowers of a movie heroine, nor the calmness of a novel's protagonist.

"Ren Ran, are you scared?"

It's Gu Xiao. Before I can answer, he walks towards me.

The familiar scent of pine wood envelopes my body, it's the perfume I once gave him when we were together.

"I always think back to the pain I suffered in the previous life when I died."

"Why didn't you look for me in the previous life? Little ungrateful wolf, you only know my value now?"

I open my mouth to speak, but then I see flames ignite in the distance sky.

It's not a celebration, it's death.

In an instant, the shouts of the crowd and the honking of cars fill the air.

Suddenly, a large truck rushes out from a place very close to us.

It's going at an extremely high speed, and in a few seconds, it will collide with the gate of the villa.

"Gu Xiao!"

I look back, but Gu Xiao is not behind me...

We are alone on top of a hill. Turning on the lights at night would make us too conspicuous, so we made a rule not to use lights at night.

A pitch-black darkness behind me.

The sound of blaring horns from outside the villa reaches my ears.

I quickly run downstairs, only to find that Gu Xiao

is already at the bottom of the stairs.

The imagined sound of impact doesn't happen, and instead, there's the sound of abrupt braking.

"Ran Ran, you go up first, I'll go out and take a look."

I nod my head.

I'm not a melodramatic person. I know that people are dangerous now, so ensuring safety is the most important thing.

From a corner, I take out a machete and hand it to Gu Xiao.

In the apocalypse, we won't just lie down and wait for death, so knives were also on my shopping list.

I quietly go upstairs and hide on the balcony, looking down.

Gu Xiao has already gone out, there's still some distance to the truck.

Before he reaches it, a middle-aged man comes out from the side of the truck.

He is tall and doesn't seem very approachable.

I can't hear what they're saying from upstairs.

Through the window, I see the man repeatedly bowing, presumably apologizing.

I stare intently and feel that something is off.

On his third attempt to touch his right wrist, I finally spot the problem.

In the moonlight, there is a reflection on his wrist.

I quickly grab my phone, zoom in with the camera, and take a closer look.

There's a hidden needle at the cuff of his sleeve.

Gu Xiao has a machete with him, he must have had some reservations, which is why he didn't make a move.

I can't hesitate, so I quickly open the window.

"Gu Xiao, there's something wrong with him."

The moment he hears the voice, the man rushes towards Gu Xiao.

I quickly run downstairs, grabbing the baseball bat by the entrance along the way.

But before I can open the door, someone pushes it open from the outside.

A person walks in from the shadows, carrying a strong smell of blood on their body.

It's not Gu Xiao.

The blood on their body...

Fear washes over me, I don't know Gu Xiao's situation right now, so I must try to remain calm.

I face the man head-on, raising the baseball bat. I definitely can't beat him in terms of size.

I can only rely on a burst of energy to buy some time.